Quotes about Lament
If we spend time in the prayer of lament, new light may come, rather than simply the repetition of things we might have wanted to say anyway.
— NT Wright
The largest body of content in the psalms is given to lament, in which the psalmist "laments" or mourns the situation he is in and the distress he is facing.
— Paul David Tripp
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
— Numbers 14:1
And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
— Deuteronomy 1:45
So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
— Deuteronomy 9:25
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
— Judges 11:40
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
— 1 Samuel 1:10
Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
— 2 Samuel 1:9
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
— 2 Samuel 1:17
“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
— 2 Samuel 1:19
And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
— 2 Samuel 3:33
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.
— 2 Samuel 13:19